ABOUT US
The Filipino American Rural Mission (FARM) is a California based US charitable agency recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3). The agency is dedicated to serve the disadvantaged sectors of farmers, fisher folks, and indigenous people in the Philippines.
Majority of the Philippine population are farmers. Despite of this, it is very unfortunate that country is not doing well with its agricultural industry. The country was once a center of rice production, but today it cannot even afford to produce enough rice to feed its own people and now source to other countries like Thailand and Vietnam – countries who were previously trained to grow rice in UP Los Banos, Philippines through the “International Rice Research Institute”.
Farmers are among the poorest sectors of the country as most of them are dependent on landlords or loan sharks to finance their needs. After harvest, farmers are usually in debt because of high interest rates and are sometimes forced to give up the land they till to their creditors! One factor that makes it impossible for farmers to yield profit is the lack of seeds, water (irrigation), basic equipment and other technology that can train them to produce organic
fertilizers.
